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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

Working as an entrepreneur, executive, philanthropist and investor over the past few decades, at some of the very organizations Watters bemoans, I’ve had a unique vantage point for observing numerous successes, failures and—most importantly—long-term trends that make me optimistic about the next wave of education innovation.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

Edsurge

Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence. On its website , the company claims it has more than 700 institutional customers across the K-12, higher education and corporate learning space. In 2014, the Gates Foundation awarded the company a $4.5 Flash will be sunsetted on Dec.

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EdSurge Article Recommends Edtech Efficacy Portfolios - Here's Ours

MIND Research Institute

The article goes on to provide guidance about where an edtech company might focus their efficacy measurement efforts based on the maturity of their product and organization. Fuster, 2004; Schneider & Chein, 2003), schemas and heuristics (e.g., Dietrich, 2004), to name a few. Formative Research. Continuing the Conversation.

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10 Ways to Publish Your Game Anywhere

The Game Agency

or 2004) and load into your Learning Management System (LMS). Your learning management is full of great elearning courses and content but how do you assess that your learners are retaining that content? I deployed the Jump and Match games on behalf of a leading Fortune 100 processor company. EXPORT YOUR GAME TO YOUR LMS.

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10 Ways to Publish Your Game Anywhere

The Game Agency

or 2004) and load into your Learning Management System (LMS). Your learning management is full of great elearning courses and content but how do you assess that your learners are retaining that content? I deployed the Jump and Match games on behalf of a leading Fortune 100 processor company. EXPORT YOUR GAME TO YOUR LMS.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

As I have done for the past six years, I will spend the rest of November and December publishing my review of what I deem the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” of the year. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. (Of Fantasy. .”

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